In classrooms and at home, kids are reading a new genre of books about a timely topic: refugees. They're selling well and providing a sympathetic view of people often portrayed as threats.

Discover the best children's picture books, chapter books, and middle grade books about immigration, refugees, migration, migrant work, deportation, poverty, and culture. I hope this list is helpful.

A refugee family’s trek through Europe is the focus of this bilingual Arabic and English picture book. Calling the Water Drum By LaTisha Redding, illus. by Aaron Boyd (Dec. 31, 2016, Lee & Low ...

This popular book, the authorial debut of Khaled Hosseini who is also a UNHCR ambassador, chronicles the friendship between Amir, a wealthy Afghan boy, and Hassan, the son of a servant in Amir’s ...

This book also highlights the horrors children face as refugees. Starting in Afghanistan, we follow a young boy and his brother who try to run away from the war there.

Since the year 2000, June 20 has been set aside as a day to raise awareness about the plight of refugees around the world. And if recent news and social media outrage haven’t been enough of an ...

In A Memoir, The Aunt Of The Drowned Syrian Boy Tells What Happened After The Tragedy : Goats and Soda The photo of the young child's body powered a surge of public concern for the refugee crisis ...

For The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, he asked 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe (Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia and others) to ...

Manitowoc doctor writes book about time in refugee camp. Sarah Kloepping. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. As 7-year-old Xa Xiong held his dying brother's hand, he made him a promise.